Day: June 7, 2020

Earlier this week our community recognized the 70th anniversary of the very brave actions of the all-black Walker-Grant High School class of 1950, which was denied the opportunity to walk through the front doors of the Fredericksburg Community Center for their graduation ceremony. Instead of entering through the back door, they held Fredericksburg’s first civil rights protest at the Community Center with the support of the Fredericksburg Branch NAACP and marched nonviolently in their caps and gowns downtown to the Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) where they chose to hold their commencement ceremony.